Originally Posted by
brooklynmatt
Why would you do that, rather than include links in the text? I posted once about 10 travel accessories for your Tablet, such as certain adapters that weren't so obvious and basic stuff like cover, keyboard etc to make it into a usable data entry device.
Why would I share info about a cool accessory, then not link to it - if the reader learns about the product through my effort, then goes off to google it then how is the site being sustained?
I put affiliate links for everything, if someone wanted to click through and buy what I said then the could, if they didn't then they didn't click, or they could deliberately not click and google instead.
But when your blog becomes your source of income, what is stopping you from focusing mainly on THOSE kind of articles? I'm not saying you are guilty of it, but there are a lot of blogs out there where the content follows the affiliate link demands, not the other way around.
To think that someone would deliberately google a product instead of clicking your affiliate link is quite silly - people want easy to chew content, they won't go through the trouble of de-affiliating them.
There is too much content out there nowadays where you read the article, then have to conclude that it was written not to inform or educate, but to boost income.
Out of curiosity - the list of tablet accessories you wrote about, did it only include products you had actually used yourself?